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• Export Your Content to Another Blog or Platform
• Backups

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Export Your Content to Another Blog or Platform

It’s your content; you can do with it whatever you like. Go to Tools -> Export in your WordPress.com dashboard to download an XML file of your blog’s content. This format, which we call WordPress eXtended RSS or WXR, will contain your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags. You can choose to only download posts authored by specific users. To do this, you can use the Restrict Author drop-down menu.

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Note: This will ONLY export your posts, pages, comments, categories, and tags; any uploads and images will need to be manually transferred to the new blog.

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Backups

If your blog is hosted here at WordPress.com, we handle all necessary backups. If a very large meteor were to hit all the WordPress.com servers and destroy them beyond repair, all of your data would still be safe and we could have your blog online within a couple of days (after the meteor situation dies down, of course).

But if want to back up your blog content manually, you are free to do so by using the Tools -> Export option described above. This is still certainly a good idea, as if posts and pages are removed manually from an authorized user on your blog, there is no way to recover the posts.

Last modified: December 3, 2009